Five

‘five’,

easy way to type it: gaenjinsii

Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

IPA

[ gændžɪ́nsi ],

then

[ gændžɪ́nsi ]

[ gænˈdʒɪnsi ],

then

[ gænˈdʒɪnsi ]

Instant Phonetic Englishization: gann_jin-see, for Lolly’s pronunciation of her
version of the word, with its heavy pronunciation of the ejective at the beginning
of the second syllable of Annie’s version of the word: g.ann_ch!in_see, which begins with a Back
G, which we sometimes call ‘dotted g’.
We gratuitously put a dot under the small capital G symbol in our
modernized Americanist transcriptions.
Lolly’s Coos Bay Milluk version of the word begins with what we call a
Mid G, i.e. a voiced velar stop consonant, instead of the voiced uvular stop
at the beginning of Annie’s version of the word, made farther back in the
throat.